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Career Details :: Medical and Health Services Managers

Description

Plan, direct, or coordinate medicine and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Administers fiscal operations, such as planning budgets, authorizing expenditures, and coordinating financial reporting.
• Develops or expands medical programs or health services for research, rehabilitation, and community health promotion.
• Implements and administers programs and services for health care or medical facility.
• Prepares activity reports to inform management of the status and implementation plans of programs, services, and quality initiatives.
• Reviews and analyzes facility activities and data to aid planning and cash and risk management and to improve service utilization.
• Recruits, hires, and evaluates the performance of medical staff and auxiliary personnel.
• Develops and maintains computerized records management system to store or process personnel, activity, or personnel data.
• Inspects facilities for emergency readiness and compliance of access, safety, and sanitation regulations and recommends building or equipment modifications.
• Develops instructional materials and conducts in-service and community-based educational programs.
• Consults with medical, business, and community groups to discuss service problems, coordinate activities and plans, and promote health programs.
• Establishes work schedules and assignments for staff, according to workload, space, and equipment availability.
• Develops organizational policies and procedures and establishes evaluative or operational criteria for facility or medical unit.
• Directs and coordinates activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, and maintenance personnel of health care facility or mobile unit.

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Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Written Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Mathematical Reasoning

General Work Activities

• Communicating With Other Workers
• Guiding, Directing & Motivating Subordinates
• Performing Administrative Activities
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems

Important Skills

• Management of Personnel Resources
  
• Management of Financial Resources
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Coordination
  
• Writing
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Consequence of Error
• Objective or Subjective Information
• Coordinate or Lead Others

Related Majors

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Accounting/Management	[ add ]
Administration	[ add ]
Administration for Health Care Personnel	[ add ]
Administration/Management	[ add ]
Administrative Science	[ add ]
Administrative Studies	[ add ]
Allied Health Administration	[ add ]
Allied Health Management	[ add ]
Architecture/Business Administration	[ add ]
Business	[ add ]
Business Administration	[ add ]
Business Administration/Accounting	[ add ]
Business Administration/Administration	[ add ]
Business Administration/Behavioral Science	[ add ]
Business Administration/Business Education	[ add ]
Business Administration/Communication Arts	[ add ]
Business Administration/Computer Science	[ add ]
Business Administration/Economics	[ add ]
Business Administration/Equestrian Studies	[ add ]
Business Administration/Ethics	[ add ]
Business Administration/Finance	[ add ]
Business Administration/Human Resources Management	[ add ]
Business Administration/International Studies	[ add ]
Business Administration/Law	[ add ]
Business Administration/Management	[ add ]
Business Administration/Management Information Systems	[ add ]
Business Administration/Marine Transportation	[ add ]
Business Administration/Marketing	[ add ]
Business Administration/Marketing/Retail	[ add ]
Business Administration/Office Administration	[ add ]
Business Administration/Public Health	[ add ]
Business Management	[ add ]
Business Management/Administration	[ add ]
Business Management/Banking	[ add ]
Business/Commerce	[ add ]
Business/Management	[ add ]
Business/Organizational Management	[ add ]
Business/Public Management	[ add ]
Chemistry/Management	[ add ]
Communication Science/Disorders	[ add ]
Communication Sciences/Disorders	[ add ]
Communication/Business Management	[ add ]
Communication/Learning Disorders	[ add ]
Communicative Disorders/Sciences	[ add ]
Computer Science/Business Administration	[ add ]
Economics for Business Management	[ add ]
Economics/Business Administration	[ add ]
Economics/Management	[ add ]
Electronic Commerce	[ add ]
Executive Business Administration	[ add ]
General Business Administration	[ add ]
General Management	[ add ]
Health Administration	[ add ]
Health Care Administration	[ add ]
Health Care Management	[ add ]
Health Communication	[ add ]
Health Information Technology	[ add ]
Health Management	[ add ]
Health Management Systems	[ add ]
Health Policy/Administration	[ add ]
Health Policy/Management	[ add ]
Health Service Education	[ add ]
Health Services	[ add ]
Health Services Administration	[ add ]
Health Services Management	[ add ]
Health Systems Administration	[ add ]
Health Systems Management	[ add ]
Health/Community Systems	[ add ]
Health/Human Services	[ add ]
Interdisciplinary Engineering/Management	[ add ]
International Business Administration	[ add ]
International Business/Management	[ add ]
Law/Business Administration	[ add ]
Learning Disabilities	[ add ]
Liberal Arts Management/Business	[ add ]
Long-Term Care Administration	[ add ]
Management	[ add ]
Management Services	[ add ]
Management/Administration	[ add ]
Management/Business	[ add ]
Management/Engineering	[ add ]
Management/Human Resources	[ add ]
Management/Industrial Relations	[ add ]
Management/International Business	[ add ]
Management/Library Science	[ add ]
Management/Organizational Communication	[ add ]
Management/Organizational Development	[ add ]
Management/Psychology/Management Science	[ add ]
Management/Technology	[ add ]
Managerial Studies	[ add ]
Mathematics/Business Administration	[ add ]
Mathematics/Management	[ add ]
Medical Informatics	[ add ]
Medical Records Administration	[ add ]
Nursing Administration	[ add ]
Nursing Home Administration	[ add ]
Nursing/Nursing Administration	[ add ]
Organizational Administration	[ add ]
Organizational Leadership	[ add ]
Organizational Management	[ add ]
Pre-engineering Physics	[ add ]
Professional Administration	[ add ]
Respiratory Care Administration	[ add ]
School Health Services	[ add ]
Sociology/Business Administration	[ add ]
Welding Management Technology	[ add ]

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